Tips from our Community Relations Division. After Christmas Day has passed and Santa has left all those nice gifts. Make sure you don’t advertise to Burglars what you got for Christmas. Make sure you don’t leave big boxes out next to the garbage can. Break them down or cut them up and place them inside the can to conceal them better.

On Dec. 13, St. Bernard Sheriff James Pohlmann, second from right, received a donation of 20 bicycles from Associated Terminals to be given to St. Bernard Parish children to make their Christmas brighter. With Sheriff Pohlmann are, from left: Associated Terminals’ Operations Manager Jason Perez, Sentell Aisola, Associated Terminals’ railman; Associated Terminals’ senior warehouseman Leroy Mack, Maj. Angela Huff, commander of the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office 911 Center; and Associated Terminals’ Operations Manager Forrest Russell.

St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office
Free Ride Home Program For Holiday Season

The program, which runs from Thanksgiving through Jan. 2, allows residents who have too much to drink during the holiday season to call the Sheriff’s Office at (504) 271-2501 to receive a free ride home from a deputy, no questions asked.

A Sheriff’s Office deputy will pick you up and take you to your home in St. Bernard or, if you live outside the parish, they will take you to a Sheriff’s substation where you can make arrangements to be picked up by a friend or family member.

Nine St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies and an officer from the Slidell Police Department graduated Dec. 12 after a 92-hour Corrections Division course in Peace Officers Standards and Training, or P.O.S.T., Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

The corrections course, which helps better prepare deputies to work in a prison environment or Juvenile Detention Center, covers topics such as defensive tactics, booking procedures, report writing and the use of force lesson plans. Deputies also are trained in the use of pepper spray, which includes each officer being pepper-sprayed in order to learn firsthand about its effects.

The course, held at the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office Training Center in Chalmette, was led by instructors Capt. Dennis Morgan, Lt. Kyle Brown, Cpl. Brandon Lewis and Dep. Darlene Ricks of the St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office Corrections Division.

St. Bernard Sheriff’s Office
Free Ride Home Program For Holiday Season

St. Bernard Sheriff James Pohlmann wishes everyone a Happy Holiday season and reminds them to call the Sheriff’s Office if they are in need of a safe ride home.

The program, which runs from Thanksgiving through Jan. 2, allows residents who have too much to drink during the holiday season to call the Sheriff’s Office at (504) 271-2501 to receive a free ride home from a deputy, no questions asked.

A Sheriff’s Office deputy will pick you up and take you to your home in St. Bernard or, if you live outside the parish, they will take you to a Sheriff’s substation where you can make arrangements to be picked up by a friend or family member.